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22 Cards in this Set
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What is a myth?
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A traditional story about gods and heroes
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What is a dramatic story where the main character fails?
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Tragedy
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What is a comedy?
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A dramatic story where the main character succeeds
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List three types of columns the Greeks invented to holdup its temples
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Dori, Ionic, and Corinthian
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What temple in the Anthens was built for the goddess Athena?
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Parthenon
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What does philosophy mean?
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Love and wisdom
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The greek written language was based on what?
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phoenician alphabet
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What Greek scientist and mathematician explained how the lever and pulley worked and discovered the value of Pi?
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Archimedes
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What did Pthagoras teach his students?
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The universe followed the same laws that governed music and numbers.
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The Pythagorean Theorem is used to figure out what?
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The length of the sides of a triangles
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Who were the sophists?
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Professional teachers in Ancient Greece
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What is the Golden mean?
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a person should not do anything in access
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What crime Socrates accused of?
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Teaching young Athenas to rebel against the state
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What is the Socratic method?
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pointed to questions to force his pupils to use their reasons and to see things for themselves
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What did Socrates believe about right and wrong?
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There is an absolute truth existed and that all knowledge existed with each person
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What did the Sophist believe about right and wrong?
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There was no absolute right and wrong
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What skills did the Sophist teach their students?
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How to win and agruement and make good political speeches
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What did Plato think of democracy?
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That democracy was not a good system of government
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Who should be the leader in Plato's imaginary ideal government?
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Philosopher kings
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According to Aristotle, the best government was a mixture of what?
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Rich and poor
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How did Aristotle influence American government?
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They tried to create a mixed government that balanced the different types Aristotle had identified.
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Who is the considered the greatest historian of the ancient world?
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Theucydides
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